In his letter to Hope, Mr Joyce explained his own family history and his decision to leave the family business to marry the girl he loved.

“I used to live in New England. My parents are well off, not like yours obviously, but multi-millionaires none the less,’’ Mr Joyce wrote. “I left the family business, was offered an ultimatum that I could not accept to be honest, leave your girlfriend or leave.

“When I got married one side of the church was packed, that was my wife’s, the other side fitted onto two pews. The wedding photos are not on display in my house.

“Hope it is not my business but can I offer just an idea. Who really loves you, who misses you, who would give everything and beg for more if your life depended on it because you are Ginny’s sister and Gina’s daughter? Alternatively, who has a motivation and a business based on stirring people up, telling people they can win things, telling people they can get more money and billing them for their grief. Hope believe me, such a practise has been going on a long time — it is their very business.

“You are a family Australia needs. All good families have their problems but before it gets really out of hand, I would try and get it back in house and out of public view,” Mr Joyce concluded.

Mr Joyce sent the e-mail in 2011 when he was opposition spokesman for regional development, local government and water and not a cabinet minister.

Hope had originally sided with her older siblings in the dispute with their mother but later pulled out of the legal battle following a $45 million loan from her mother.

Gina Rinehart has long been a vocal supporter of Mr Joyce and presented him with a $40,000 cheque last November alongside an award at an event put on by her company Hancock Prospecting at the Australian War Memorial to celebrate the agriculture industry.

Gina Rinehart handed him a National Agricultural and Related Industries prize and said the Deputy Prime Minister was a “champion of farming.”

A bewildered Mr Joyce accepted the award on stage but then scrambled to hand the money back.

In his letter to Hope, Mr Joyce explained his own family history and his decision to leave the family business to marry the girl he loved.

“I used to live in New England. My parents are well off, not like yours obviously, but multi-millionaires none the less,’’ Mr Joyce wrote. “I left the family business, was offered an ultimatum that I could not accept to be honest, leave your girlfriend or leave.

“When I got married one side of the church was packed, that was my wife’s, the other side fitted onto two pews. The wedding photos are not on display in my house.

“Hope it is not my business but can I offer just an idea. Who really loves you, who misses you, who would give everything and beg for more if your life depended on it because you are Ginny’s sister and Gina’s daughter? Alternatively, who has a motivation and a business based on stirring people up, telling people they can win things, telling people they can get more money and billing them for their grief. Hope believe me, such a practise has been going on a long time — it is their very business.

“You are a family Australia needs. All good families have their problems but before it gets really out of hand, I would try and get it back in house and out of public view,” Mr Joyce concluded.

Mr Joyce sent the e-mail in 2011 when he was opposition spokesman for regional development, local government and water and not a cabinet minister.

Hope had originally sided with her older siblings in the dispute with their mother but later pulled out of the legal battle following a $45 million loan from her mother.

Gina Rinehart has long been a vocal supporter of Mr Joyce and presented him with a $40,000 cheque last November alongside an award at an event put on by her company Hancock Prospecting at the Australian War Memorial to celebrate the agriculture industry.

Gina Rinehart handed him a National Agricultural and Related Industries prize and said the Deputy Prime Minister was a “champion of farming.”

A bewildered Mr Joyce accepted the award on stage but then scrambled to hand the money back.

Multi-millionaires, eh. The way Barnyard portrays his background in the media I assumed they were share-croppers living in a mud humpy.

I wonder what the objection was to Mrs Joyce. Don't tell me she's a Proddy.

Correct, unless it becomes a criminal issue with him being recommended for criminal prosecution as they did with Slipper, and a court orders a paternity test, he can continue to claim doubt and the govts processes cant do him much damage other than political. He continues to deny his relationship isn't that of a partner because the kid may not be his. The parliament can't order a test

John Hancock told him last month to stay away from his family, that he had done enough damage to them. Not sure of the family dynamics now nor whether Gina and John are on better terms, but he was pretty assertive.

If we didn't know it before we now have undeniable proof that this guy is a self-centred, ignorant pr!ck. The only possible logical explanation for his comments on the paternity issue is that in the face of rumours they decided to get it over and done with for the sake of the child's future. Even then the manner in which this insensitive ass dealt with it is bloody disgraceful.

There has to be something behind this bizarre intervention by Barnady.

Something bigger about to break? Entitlements?

I reckon someone in the PM's office finally did the sums and was ready to leak, so Barnaby simply got in front of it ... the girlfriend was right next to him when he spilled the beans, so it wasn't a dump on her. He said he's going to stand by her no matter ... better man than Turnbull, Shorten and Di Natale combined!

It wasn't the Greens/ALP Collusion with the dirt, that's a given ... they would still be doing the sums when the kid was graduating from university, and still would have had them wrong.

In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!

Particularly as this isn't the only one he got pregnant(aborted) and a number are lined up with complaints of sexual assault. I first heard it 3 months ago but there were threats of legal action and nobody was game to say anything.

Andrew Bolt wrote at the time that if these stories was right, Joyce is finished, if it isn't, XXXXXXX is finished for spreading it

It is starting to break now with copies of text messages exchanged with the politician many complained to

Particularly as this isn't the only one he got pregnant(aborted) and a number are lined up with complaints of sexual assault. I first heard it 3 months ago but there were threats of legal action and nobody was game to say anything.

Andrew Bolt wrote at the time that if these stories was right, Joyce is finished, if it isn't, XXXXXXX is finished for spreading it

It is starting to break now with copies of text messages exchanged with the politician many complained to

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